What Is That Room Called in French?

Use this French lesson on all the rooms within a house to practice describing things along with adjectives they have already learned. Use extension vocabulary connected to a house such as gardens and trees as a bonus.

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Grade, Duration and Objectives

This lesson plan works well with young elementary students in grades three to five and the duration of for this lesson is approximately 20 to 40 minutes.

Once complete, your class will be able to identify the rooms of a house using the French language through oral and written exercises.

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Materials

Ask your students to cut pictures from magazines beforehand at home or in class, in preparation for this French lesson plan. The teacher should also provide flash cards of various rooms in a house. Poster boards can be used to create diagrams of various types of homes for students to label. Students can also use plastic construction materials to construct a miniature house.

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Procedure

Request students work in groups writing simple sentences describing the rooms. They will then read sentences in class and receive corrections. Students are then quizzed on vocabulary.

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Written Activities

Here are some sentences that students can compose on rooms of the house, and reinforce learning by oral practice:

Practical Activities

Creativity and group works can go a long way in aiding with learning vocabulary. They will enjoy collating their magazine pictures in scrapbooks, while others will test each other with flash cards showing the rooms and English words on one side, and give the French equivalent for points. Other students who like drawing can create diagrams of various types of homes on poster boards; while yet others can engage in constructing a miniature house for the pleasure of all the other students to have fun labeling rooms.

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Labeling the Rooms

These are some easy and fun ways to practice vocabulary in a French lesson on rooms of the house. Teachers should also encourage students to label the rooms and furniture at home in French as an extracurricular activity. Younger students who have doll houses can also learn vocabulary by labeling rooms in them.